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Feminist interpretations of Mary Astell / edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss ; preface, Nancy Tuana.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Re-reading the canonPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271077604
  • 0271077603
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Feminist interpretations of Mary Astell.DDC classification:
  • 305.4201 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1595.A7 F46 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Locations and legacies : reading Mary Astell and re-reading the canon / Penny A. Weiss -- Mary Astell and the virtues / Jacqueline Broad -- Mary Astell's account of feminine self-esteem / Kathleen A. Ahearn -- Mary Astell and the development of vice : pride, courtship, and the woman's human nature question / Alice Sowaal -- Custom, freedom, and equality : Mary Astell on marriage and women's education / Karen Detlefsen -- Further reflections upon marriage : Mary Astell and Sarah Chapone / Susan Paterson Glover -- Mary Astell : some reflections upon trauma / Elizabeth Hedrick Moser -- "From the throne to every private family?" : Mary Astell as analyst of power / Penny A. Weiss -- Mary Astell's feminism : a rhetorical perspective / Christine Mason Sutherland -- Mary Astell on the existence and nature of God / Marcy P. Lascano -- The emerging picture of Mary Astell's views / Alice Sowaal.
Summary: "A collection of essays on the early modern English writer, proto-feminist, and rhetorician Mary Astell. Includes discussions on human nature, equality, rationality, power, freedom, friendship, marriage, and education"--Provided by publisher.
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"A collection of essays on the early modern English writer, proto-feminist, and rhetorician Mary Astell. Includes discussions on human nature, equality, rationality, power, freedom, friendship, marriage, and education"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Locations and legacies : reading Mary Astell and re-reading the canon / Penny A. Weiss -- Mary Astell and the virtues / Jacqueline Broad -- Mary Astell's account of feminine self-esteem / Kathleen A. Ahearn -- Mary Astell and the development of vice : pride, courtship, and the woman's human nature question / Alice Sowaal -- Custom, freedom, and equality : Mary Astell on marriage and women's education / Karen Detlefsen -- Further reflections upon marriage : Mary Astell and Sarah Chapone / Susan Paterson Glover -- Mary Astell : some reflections upon trauma / Elizabeth Hedrick Moser -- "From the throne to every private family?" : Mary Astell as analyst of power / Penny A. Weiss -- Mary Astell's feminism : a rhetorical perspective / Christine Mason Sutherland -- Mary Astell on the existence and nature of God / Marcy P. Lascano -- The emerging picture of Mary Astell's views / Alice Sowaal.

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